July, 2013

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Announcing the New Men with Pens Brand

Men With Pens

'Freshening up your website is important to your business results, and that''s exactly what we did. That black banner? The old brand image? It just wasn''t us anymore. We wanted a trendy new look that kept our business up to date, looking stylish and all-fired genius. Mission accomplished. Come take a look now. Click here to read the full article → Another rocking post from Men With Pens!

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When You Have Nothing Unique to Say…

ProBlogger

'I’ve got nothing unique to say. It has all been said before. There are so many people who are smarter than me. Why would anyone listen to me? Have you ever found yourself thinking like this? If so – you’re not alone. At one point or another most bloggers do, and many would be bloggers have been stopped in their tracks by them. Here’s the deal: Nobody has lived your life before.

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How to Produce Great Content Fast – in Five Simple Steps

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Ali Luke, author of The Blogger’s Guide to Effective Writing. . Great content, posted on a regular basis, is vital to your blog’s success. But most bloggers, especially those new to writing, struggle to produce high-quality posts as quickly as they’d like. This is usually because they’re following some poor writing practices, like: Sitting in front of a blank screen, trying to come up with an idea.

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5 Tips for Launching a Product On Your Blog Without Annoying Your Readers

ProBlogger

'“Darren, I have written an eBook but am struggling with how ‘pushy’ to be with my readers in my marketing of it. I want to sell some but don’t want to annoy my readers. Any tips?” This question hit my inbox today and I thought I’d share some of my reply here. Great question – I remember these feelings vividly when I launched the first eBooks on ProBlogger and dPS.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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9 Ways to Keep You Fresh, Inspired and Creative

ProBlogger

'Image by Rares Dutu How do you keep yourself fresh, inspired and creative as a blogger? I was asked variations of this question three times this week, so thought I’d put my mind to giving a public answer. There are certainly times when I don’t feel overly ‘fresh’, ‘inspired’ or ‘creative’ However, I guess over the last 10 years of blogging I’ve begun to develop some rhythms and habits that enable me to keep consistently create content on a d

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How We Increased Organic Blog Traffic by 203.5% in Less Than 3 Months – And You Can Too

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution by Kristina Allen, marketing consultant for AdEspresso. Over the past couple of months my team at AdEspresso has increased our organic blog traffic by 203.5% and I’m going to share the secret of exactly how we did it! Step 1: Conduct Keyword Research. When we first started working on driving (more) organic traffic to the AdEspresso blog our team began with keyword research.

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The Power of Personalisation

ProBlogger

'A year back, a new cafe sprung up in our area. At the time, I didn’t really pay much attention to it as I was satisfied with the 2 cafes I already went to each week. But last Christmas morning, I was desperate for a coffee and it being Christmas Day, no cafes were open in our area – except this one. So I went in that fine Christmas morning, ordered a take away latte and went on with the day’s festivities.

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Write Less, Say More

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Brooke McAlary, founder of Slow Your Home. You’ve heard of slow food, perhaps even slow travel or slow homes. But slow…blogging? Really? Isn’t the point of blogging to be topical, with our fingers on the pulse of global trends? Don’t we, as bloggers, pride ourselves on being the gatekeepers of information, upcoming releases and Game of Thrones memes?

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7 Surprising Skills Blogging is Teaching You

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Kelly Teng, Digital Outreach Specialist at Switched on Media. Blogging can take you on a whirlwind journey. It can have you running around at events, losing sleep, and sitting in front of your computer for hours and hours (and hours…). The end result is a great blog with stellar posts, and a myriad of experiences that you get to embark on and incredible people you get to meet.

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The 7 Angels of Blogging DOOM

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Rebekah Lambert, copywriter and owner of Unashamedly Creative. Blogging is super fun, right? You get to write your own stories, express opinions, share what you learn, explore ideas, encourage debate and create a wonderful world of content that attracts like minded people. However with all this joy inside the happy little garden of the blogosphere, there are some really poisonous, destructive people waiting to chop you down and smear their negativity all over t

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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7 Reasons I LOVE Running Webinars for My Blog Readers

ProBlogger

'Over the last couple of years I’ve run semi-regular webinars for ProBlogger readers ( sign up to get invitations to these free webinars here ). These webinars have not only received a lot of positive feedback, they’ve also been among the most energising things I’ve done on this site. Here’s a few quick thoughts on why I love doing webinars: 1.

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13 Tools and Services I Use Every Day to Build a Profitable Blogging Business

ProBlogger

'Yesterday, during our Q&A webinar, we received a lot of questions about the tools and services we recommend for different aspects of blogging. While we touched on a few, there are quite a few more that I wanted to touch on. Not all are strictly ‘blogging tools’ but all are things we regularly use as a team. Note: I am an affiliate for some of the following tools and services but am also a daily user of all of them and have been for a minimum of 12 months.

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What Advertisers Want: 6 steps to Attract Advertisers to Your Blog

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Brianne Bauer. How do advertisers determine whether a blog is worth their marketing dollars? Promising blogs start out with must-have elements — interesting content, loyal readership, eye-catching design and regular updates. But what’s missing? Here are six ways bloggers can become more attractive to advertisers. Cross-Media Integration.

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Gmail Trying to ‘Fix’ Our Inbox and What it Means for You.

ProBlogger

'If capturing and sending email is a part of your blog, it might be your newsletter, affiliate programs, sales email or even just reader comment notifications there are some changes (that have been looming for some time) now ramping up to a level that will impact the way you create and send emails … Email services providers are taking matters into their own hands to fix our inbox’s. . … and when Google start leading the charge with this, we all better pay attention.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Check out This Amazing Bundle of Training for Bloggers and Online Entrepreneurs [72 Hours Only]

ProBlogger

'A few minutes ago an amazing bundle of great hand picked teaching for online entrepreneurs was made bundle at a great discount from some guys I’ve come to know and respect. Check it out – it’s called Only 72 and as the name suggests it’s a once off bundle that lasts for just 72 hours. I’ve not done a major endorsement or promotion of anything as an affiliate here on ProBlogger for over 12 months because increasingly I’ve been disillusioned with the quality of

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How to Deal with a Firestorm of Controversy on Your Blog (Before it Suffocates You)

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Sherice Jacob. You’ve just hit Publish. You don’t know what will happen from here, but at the moment, you feel relieved. You’ve just written one of the most controversial, eye-opening, highly-polarizing posts on your blog. You know it’s ripe for debate and there are going to be readers who take your perspective personally – as if you secretly wrote it for – and about – them.

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How to Make Your Blogging Dreams Come True [Part 2]

ProBlogger

'Choose one small thing to start with that will move you toward your dream and do it to the best of your ability ( tweet this ). I issued that challenge in a post How to Make Your Blogging Dreams Come True just over a month ago. Since publishing that post, I’ve had literally hundreds of readers email me to let me know that they’ve been using the mantra to move them toward their blogging (and non blogging) dreams.

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2 Thoughts on Opportunity and Success to Kickstart Your Week

ProBlogger

'Yesterday I tweeted a couple of thoughts on Twitter leading to an explosion of retweets but also questions, reactions and ideas. I thought I’d put them here on the blog too, in the hope they might help to kickstart your week! So many of us wait for opportunity to knock on our door. Most successful ppl are prolific door openers & don’t wait for knocks [ tweet this ].

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Lets Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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How to Make the Switch Between Monetizing with Ad Network to Selling Ads Directly on Your Blog

ProBlogger

'Over on Reddit today someone asked for some advice on switching from monetizing a blog using just ad networks (like AdSense) to selling advertising directly to advertisers. I found myself writing a rather long response and thought it might also be of some use to readers here. Here’s the question and my response (which wasn’t really written as a blog post – so I hope it is helpful).

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Ask the ProBlogger Team any Question: Register for Our Next Free Webinar

ProBlogger

'Just a short post today to let readers know that next wee we’ll be holding a ProBlogger Webinar. You can register for it here. It has been a while since we’ve had a webinar here on ProBlogger so we’re going to make this one a Q&A session where you can ask any question that you might have that relates to blogging. To help me answer your questions I’m bringing a couple of members of my team here at ProBlogger onto the webinar with me.

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An Offer that isn’t too Good to be True

ProBlogger

'Recently, Darren shared an amazing bundle of blogger training available for just 72 hours. As someone who is very selective about what training and personal development I participate in I wanted to put my own perspective forward as to why I think is something very much worth considering. Blogging is hard. It takes effort, commitment and determination.

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Don’t Quit Your Job To Chase Your Dreams… Until You’ve Read This

ProBlogger

'“I’m quitting my job to chase my dreams!” When I hear someone say those words I experience two feelings simultaneously. 1. Excitement. You can’t help but admire someone with that kind of passion. Exciting things often happen when people step out of their comfort zone and make space to go for their dreams! 2. Fear. What if their dreams are not realistic?

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Magic 5-Step Plan To Writing a Post That Will Easily Win Pulitzer Prize

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution by Tim Soulo. I bet the next sentence will totally blow your mind! Ready? Though… I think a bit of preparation wouldn’t hurt. No really, when I told this to my friend the other day he had a heart attack and I had to drive him to the hospital (he’s ok now btw). But you just have to know that! This is probably the most important piece of advice in your whole career.

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How we Built our 2 for 1 Sale

ProBlogger

'You might have stumbled across the 2-for-1 sale we’re currently having on Problogger. We’re also having one over on dPS too if you’re interested in Photography ! As soon as we launched this mid-year sale, we received a heap of requests from people who had picked up a bargain and wanted to know the logistical side of making the sale happen. So today we thought we’d share how we put it all together….

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Why Email Marketers Can Relax About the New Gmail Tabs

Men With Pens

'A lot of people have been freaking out about the new Gmail tabs – namely, anyone who uses internet marketing: This will ruin email marketing as we know it. Gmail’s out to get small businesses. My emails will never be read because they’re not in your main inbox. Get rid of those evil tabs and go back to a single-inbox format! These people seem to think that because the Promotions tab exists, their emails will automatically end up there – and never be read.

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5 Tips To Writing Irresistibly Clickable Blog Titles

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Jackson Nwachukwu, lead blogger at DailyTipsDiary.com. You’ve just been inspired and you’re ready to write the blog post you hope will be a hit. The title not might be the first step in your planning process but it’s fair to say that most people automatically start thinking about what they will call their hit post.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Help! My Baby is Sick and Someone is Stealing My Money!

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Andrew Grant, owner and author of The Freedom Blog. Two weeks ago I made a shocking discovery. I found out that my youngest child, barely out of nappies, has been infected by a terrible virus with the sinister name of SASS. SASS spreads at an alarming rate and is highly contagious. Prevalence has doubled in the last year alone and the most frightening thing is that SASS is propagated by one of our favourite modern technologies; the smartphone!

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5 Ways to Prepare Your Blog for Affiliate Selling

ProBlogger

'This a guest contribution from full time affiliate marketer, Nrupen Masram. Using your blog to earn a passive income through affiliate sales is something many bloggers aspire to. Isn’t it? But you won’t make money if you don’t get visitors to your site and you won’t get that consistent traffic until you have a blog worth visiting.

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